I Propose A Tournament

A competition between the best players from the different servers, Midwest/ Chicago, East/ Central, Reloaded, Los Angeles, and another miscellaneous team for non Reddit server players. I was thinking two teams per server, one would be made up from the best players of each class on the respective servers and the other team would be voted on. Each team should have the same number of players as their respective server allows on a team in regular server play. I do not have the capacity or mean with which to organize this but if the idea takes off some admins (from r/tf2 and the actual server admins) could step in and help. What are your thoughts reddit?

HLStatsX isn't really the best metric. One of the most common complaints is that your ranking in HLStatsX is largely dependent on how often you play, not how well you play. Someone who plays 10 hours a day and averages a low kill rate can have a better rank than someone who has an amazing kill rate but only plays an hour a day. It rewards simply 'being a regular' more than it rewards playing well.

Not just that, it depends on what maps you like to play. I know people that will just spam heavy for hours on end and it has no real bearing on how good they are. It's hard to get a great K:D ratio as a scout or spy if I'm playing on my favorite arena maps.

It probably wouldn't be best to group the teams by server, due to the wide variety of playstyle and skill between say...MWC and Reloaded.

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for a tournament, but it should be open to whatever teams want to enter, not one necessarily divided by servers. People should be able to choose their teammates because they're a part of the RUGC, but not based on what server they play on.

We used to play Arenapocalypse tournaments (bracketed double elimination 3v3) and KoTH tourney's all the time in our little group... it's all sorts of fun unless you're the dude organizing the whole thing... in which case it's a nightmare and it makes you NEVER want to play TF2 again.